The Politest Economic Weapon Ever Deployed

Eighteen months in, Canada’s boycott of American goods has gone from consumer tantrum to structural fact. Canadian spending on US goods and services fell by tens of billions of dollars last year.

Canada imported 94,148 fewer American-made cars, a 12 percent decline. Travel alone has drained roughly $4.5 billion from the US economy, with more expected in 2026, and up to 42,100 jobs have vanished in border regions that once depended on Canadian visitors.

Which brings us to Senator Adam Schiff of California, who took to X this week pleading that the boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers, after writing to Quebec’s premier about a lost $434 million market. Quebec’s answer, politely translated: the boycott stays until the tariffs go.

That is the remarkable part. Nobody organized this. No leader, no campaign, no committee. Ninety-one percent of Canadians simply decided, and American senators are now writing letters asking them to please stop.